Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-09
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Hon. Fred. Douglas is expected hom
in September.
Hon. B. K. Bruce was the orator a
Rome, Ind, July 4th.
Bishop J. A. Shorter, Of the A. M. T
church died July LIST at Xenia, Ohio.
Mr.. Arthur Flood runs first-clas
-four and feed store in Y ounstown, Ohio
Mr.. J. 81. Porter has been appointed
on the night clerk force at the waite
Office of Chicago.
The Second Annual Arkansas ColoreC
State Press Convention will assemble q
Helena, July 26th.
Augusta, Ca, boasts of 20 coloreC
merchants, 142 mechanics and number
of professional men.
Logan D. Wright, colored, and Mary
A. Deyine, white, eloped from Rush
vile, Ind, recently.
Miss Anna Henderson, who graduatee
from the Bellaire, Ohio, High School
was the first colored graduate.
Miss Ida B. Wells, (Iola). will spend
the summer at Woodstock, Tenn, and
devote her time and talents to writing q
novel.
The National Masonic Convention to
be held in Chicago, beginning August
23rd, will be the grandest affair ever
held in that city.
Mr.. Chas. E. Thomas, of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, was the only colored graduate in
class of ninety-six at the commence
ment at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mr.. Felix Meaux and Miss Anna e.
Jackson, ono of the prominent teachers
in the public schools of Louisville, KY,
were united in marriage last Thursday
afternoon.
Miss Betty Collins, working girl OF
Kansas City, Mo-, few months ago
bought lot on the installment plan for
$1,000. She sold the same few days
ago for $4,000.
Albert Turner, the murderer of Jennie
Bowman, white servant girl of Louis
vile, KY, was hanged last Friday. The
colored churches of the city refused to
allow his funeral services to be held
within them, and he was buried from
an undertakers establishments Saturday
Mr.. WI. McGuinn graduated from
Yale College Law School at the recent
commencement taking the second honor
in class of sixteen only two of which
were colored. He received a prize of
300 offered for the best Grafton. He is
a native of Virginia and only twenty
two years ofage.
Hereafter eolored teachers only will
be employed in the colored schools Of
Atlanta, Ga. The matter was decided at
a recent meeting ofthe board of edu.
cation of that city. There was tie in
the vote, five to five, to employ only
colored teachers, when United States
Senator, Joseph 3. Brown, president {
the board, gave the deciding vote in
favor of the proposition.
Miss Matte Allen, of Columbus, Ohio
the young colored lady who was dis.
charged from amercantile house because
the white clerks kicked against hel
being employed, has been appointed
teacher in the Cadiz schools. AS the
schools are mixed she will teach hel
pupils to show more brotherly love.
Ali Of the colored teachers in Chilicothe
have been reelected and will teach in
the mixed schools,
Among the bequest of the late Mrs
Sarah Marshall of Philadelphia, Pa.
were the following: $1,000 to the Asso
citation for the Care of Colored Orphans
known as the Shelters" $1,000 to the
Home for Aged and Intirm Coloreo
Persons: $5,O00to the Home of Destitute
Colored Children; $500 to the Associ
alton of Friends for the Free instruction
Of Adult Colored Persons; $4,000 to the
Friends Freedmen's Association O
Philadelphia, if still in existence, if not
to some kindred association to be deter
mined by the executors; 81 900 to the
institute for Colored Youth; $4,000 t.
the Emlen Institute for the Benefit O
Children of African and Indian Descent
$5, 900 to the Bethany Mission fol
Colored People.